Bijin m2s
Sire: Ekstein
Damsire: Cruising
Year: 2006
Height: 16.0h
Breed Reg: Imported KWPN PROK
XX/OX rate: 54.69%
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Pedigree
Description
Our direct daughter of Ekstein (damsire of Hickstead) carrying the precious blood of Cruising on the damside.
Bijin grew up in Europe and was started and trained with Monica under Olympic Show Jumper Tim Stockdale of the UK in January 2010. They then moved to the yard of Daniel Delsart, the French rider/trainer who started many of Tim's horses. Bijin jumped 1.10m courses with him and received reports from her trainers that she was a very quick learner, eager to please and had a very quick technique over fences.
After a year off in the UK to have a filly foal in 2011--Gaijin S by Olympic Quintus, Bijin travelled to VDL Stud in Holland to continue her training before being imported in foal to Inshallah de Muze in the Spring of 2014.
Bijin possesses a sweet temperament with the jaw dropping presence and ground covering movement of a big horse.
Bijin is blooded with a very quick foreleg technique and good balance. Her small stature and short coupled-ness allows her the quick reflexes that are needed to produce a modern show jumper.
Strong Points:
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Proven jumping bloodlines
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Blood
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Cat-like jumping technique
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Short coupled
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Good Balance
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Speed
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Affectionate Temperament
Progeny
Born: May 5th, 2015
Height: 16.2h
Breed Reg: KWPN
Pedigree:
XX/OX rate: 49.02%
Price:
Sire: Inshallah de Muze
Date of birth: May 11th, 2014
Height: 16.3h
Breed Reg: KWPN
Pedigree:
XX/OX rate: 48.83%
Price:
GAIJIN S
Sire: Olympic Quintus
Date of birth: March 9th, 2010
Height: 16.2h
Breed Reg: KWPN
Pedigree:
XX/OX rate: 49.41%
Price: In Europe
Sire Information
Zion-Joost-Kassander 1986 16.2h Bay
“The ultimate modern Sport Horse”
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Damsire of Beijing Olympic Gold Medallist Hickstead!
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Sire of Olympic jumper Joel
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1.60m Show Jumper Impuls
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1.60m Show Jumper and Keur Sport mare Kronieke
Ekstein was Champion of the 1989 KWPN Stallion
Performance Test, earning high marks for his gaits and 9 for
jumping under saddle, character, stall behavior, and training
report. He placed 3rd in the 1990/1991 KWPN Young Stallion Showjumping Competitions. In 1993 Ekstein was the KWPN’s 7-Year-Old Showjumping Champion.
Ekstein is the sire of the Dutch Olympic showjumper Joel (Team 4th place) and damsire of theIndividual Olympic Gold Medalist Hickstead. His progeny won six medals in the European Young Riders & European Junior Riders Championships including Individual Gold and Individual Silver Medals. Ekstein also produced the Dutch Senior National Showjumping Champion and Vice-Champion, the Belgian Classic Cycle Champion, and many other outstanding showjumpers.
In 2002-2003 Ekstein was ranked as the 38th best showjumping sire in the world and in 2003-2004 he was ranked 40th. And all of this production came from only approximately 550 breedings in the Netherlands, which produced along with Joel and the dam of Hickstead the international Grand Prix showjumpers King, Kasmir, Juska, etc.
After arriving in Ireland Ekstein sired the international Grand Prix showjumper Ulysses m2s and the international showjumpers Diamond Toby (birth name Elvis the King m2s), Wind Shear m2s, and Ardragh Stein. He also sired in Ireland the approved stallions Ulysses m2s, Ballistic m2s, and Boy Toy m2s, and is the damsire of the licensed stallion Chien-Ming Wang m2s, to complement the stallion sons and grand-sons he produced while in the Netherlands.
Ekstein descends from the world-famous Niki damline. Besides Ekstein his dam Zaniki (a full sister to the international stallion Palfrenier) produced two progeny that became 5-Year-Old Showjumping Champions in the Netherlands. Ekstein’s grand-dam Aniki is a half-sister to Nick Skelton’s famous horse Apollo, twice winner of the
Aachen Grand Prix, Dublin Grand Prix winner, Individual Bronze Medalist at the World Championship, and twice European Championship Team Gold Medalist.
Ekstein
Ekstein Progeny
Damline
Bijin brings a highly interesting combination of Irish thoroughbred blood, represented in her dam Ozy Cruise M2S, an outcome of the Irish ET project to perpetuate valuable Irish bloodlines as well as the blood of the famous thoroughbreds Ozymandias xx and Nordlys xx also in her pedigree.
Bijin's dam-sire Cruising’s dam, Mullacrew was an International showjumper, winning at top European shows. Mullacrew’s sire, Nordlys was the sire of many famous jumpers, including the 1972 individual Olympic gold medalist, Ambassador (Italy).
Cruising’s grand-dam, Big Idea was a full sister to the Irish stallion, Ideal Waters. Big Idea was by Water Serpent, the sire of international jumpers like Rockette and The Rock. Water Serpent was also the foundation sire in Patricia Nicholson’s successful eventing horse breeding program.
As a competitor himself, Cruising was a star – winning Grand Prix at Aachen (1999), Dortmund (1999), Lucerne (1998), San Marino (1996) and Wolfsburg (1996). He was the winner of three World Cup Qualifiers: Millstreet (1997, 1998) and Geneva (1998). Cruising has been a successful sire of international jumpers such as Cruise Missile, Cruiseline, Sails Away, Sail Rain and World Cruise. His eventer son, Mr Medicott, ridden by Frank Ostholt, won the World Cup CIC 2007 in Strzegom (POL).
In the 2006 Jumping Stallions’ rankings, as compiled by Bernard le Courtois in Monneron 2007-2008, Cruising ranks equal 24th with 11 international representatives.
In 2010, Cruising was ranked #5 on the USEF Leading Jumper Sires list and is the sire of Olympic Flexible ridden by Rich Fellers.
His top international performers include ‘Flexible’ (Rich Fellars) wonderful winner of the World Cup final 2012 in Hertogenbosch and 2nd World Cup finals Gothenburg 2007, ‘Mo Chroi’ (Capt Gerry Flynn) winner grand prix Dublin CSIO, ‘World Cruise’ (Shane Breen) Irish team horse, ‘Larkhill Cruiser’ (Cian O’Connor) Nations Cup winner La Baule 2011, ‘Mic Mac du Tillard' (Angelica Augustsson) winner World Cup qualifier Gothenburg 2011, ‘Colgan Cruise’ (Rich Fellars) winner of HITS Desert Classic Thermal 2012 and 'Solerina' (Shane Sweetnam) winner of 4 star GP at Wellington 2013, Cruising is also dam's sire of Tim Stockdale's 'Kalico Bay' Cruising is also proving to be an excellent eventing sire (regularly amongst the top few in the WBFSH eventing sire rankings) having sired amongst others ‘Mr Medicott’ (Frank Ostholt), 'Electric Cruise' (Joseph Murphy), 'Harbour Pilot', 'Mr Cruise Control', 'First Mate', 'Ashdale Cruise Master' etc..... and dam's sire of 'Master Crusoe' (Aoife Clarke).
The grey Irish Sport Horse stallion was considered one of the world’s most significant sires of the 21st century, and was for many years the predominant choice for many international breeders.
